Remember the Kremlin

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, whose blogging efforts I chronicled a few weeks back, is mad at ESPN--and with good reason:

"This week on the ESPN.com Page 2 column, Eric Neel decided to do a parody of what a David Stern blog might contain. No question that it was a fun premise. Unfortunately, part of his article suggested that the readers come over to blogmaverick.com and post the comment 'nice hair' on every post. And they did.

"I spent hours deleting posts from the idiots that took what he wrote literally. Great threads were pushed aside and filled with this spam.

"Collateral damage and just the cost of writing a blog? Sure. Avoidable, yes. Especially from a major media organization like ESPN.

"I expect the Naked Short idiots to flame the site when I write something they don't agree with. I expect Republican and Democratic swarms from zealot websites to spam the site when I write something they don't agree with. That's part of the deal. Cleaning them up is part of the expectation when I write the post.

"What I never expected was that a Howard Stern moment would come from the Disney Company. That a call to spam would come from one of the largest media companies in the world. The last thing the blogosphere needs is one outlet trying to diminish the voice of another by initiating an avalanche of spam."

I'll say one thing about the new Huffington Post

Larry David should have his own blog! Here's his post on "Why I Support John Bolton":

"I know this may not sound politically correct, but as someone who has abused and tormented employees and underlings for years, I am dismayed by all of this yammering directed at John Bolton. Let's face it, the people who are screaming the loudest at Bolton have never been a boss and have no idea what it's like to deal with nitwits as dumb as themselves all day long. Why, even this morning my moronic assistant handed me a cup of coffee with way too much milk in it. I was incensed.

"'You stupid ignoramus,' I screamed, doing all I could to restrain myself from tossing the luke-warm liquid in her face. 'There's too much freaking (I didn't say freaking) milk in here! What the freak is wrong with you?!'"

On the same site, Tina Brown delineates what she learned on her now-canceled CNBC show, Topic A:

"Insincere smiles are strangely hard to do even after years of practice at cocktail parties. Insincere smiles even harder to do when listening with fascination to guest speak about his theories about class warfare and producer is saying into earpiece 'Blah. Blah. Can't you put a bomb up his [butt]?'"